然而,無論多麽不情願,拜登退選2024應該不可避免。拜登總統的難題是他的年齡。具有諷刺意義的是,拜登嫻熟優秀的治理技巧,是40多年政治經驗的結果,本應是他連任的優勢,但40多年的從政變能力得越來越成熟的同時,他也變得越來越衰落,從而成為他連任的障礙。與挖坑不同,治國需要智慧而非體力,而智慧是與年齡相聯係的。然而,民主競選的確需要體力,"騎車100裏,徹夜數度纏綿後清晨再騎車趕回去上班,車鏈子居然還能在晨曦中閃著昂揚的火花"是20歲人們過的日子,走路顫巍巍的拜登早已負擔不起,隻能乘坐空軍1號克服距離的隔閡,這讓"拜登太老了"變成大眾腦中揮之不去的印象。民主政治恰恰就是"印象 -- 看上去/聽上去如此這般.."。按英文的說法, Politics is all about a perception.
真能改變拜登對第二任執著的人,是第一夫人 Jill Biden. 很久前就意識到拜登連任可能性渺茫,她一日終於對拜登說,"Honey, we are done with this, let's go home. Think positively, it surely will save you a lot of overnight Airforce One trips that the public is not aware of. (Honey, 這事兒咱做得差不多了,回家吧。往好了想,這肯定會省去很多大眾不知道的空軍1號連夜行程)
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Calmes: Biden has the best legislation record of any president since LBJ. Why can't voters see it?
By Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Time, 02/09/2023
"自Lyndon B. Johnson總統之後,拜登總統擁有最佳的立法記錄。為什麽選民視而不見?"
Jackie Calmes 2023年2月9日發表在"洛杉磯時報"上的評論文章。
鏈接如下:
https://news.yahoo.com/calmes-biden-best-legislation-record-025317035.html
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文章的第二段這樣寫道:
More than 6 in 10 Americans, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll published on the eve of President Biden's State of the Union address, said that the president — widely credited by historians and nonpartisan analysts for having achieved more legislatively in his first two years than any president since Lyndon B. Johnson — had accomplished “little or nothing.”
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Calmes: Biden has the best legislation record of any president since LBJ. Why can't voters see it?
By Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Time, 02/09/2023
voiceofme: andrew cuomo確實比newsom強,當年看cuomo update 紐約州的covid情況,真的是條理清楚,很有智慧。可惜他犯在他兄弟的事上了。
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他那個在CNN當主持的弟弟Chris Cuomo 采訪他,對Chris 來說“was a grievous fault, and grievously has he answered it"-- CNN 解雇了Chris Cuomo。
這個錯誤與Andrew Cuomo 關係不大。
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Andrew Cuomo 是 Me Too 運動的犧牲品,有助手指控他有性騷擾行為,而且一時間指控此起彼伏。在黨內極左派的喧囂下,很多民主黨眾參議院員要求他辭去紐約州州長職務。
有限的抗爭(接受他弟弟Chris 采訪是其中一部分)之後,為了黨的政治利益,Andrew Cuomo拒絕認錯而辭職,並為自證清白對指控開啟司法行動。
兩年多之後的今天,法院給出判定,"性騷擾指控不成立"。在幾周前的 Bill Mahar 的 "Real Time with Bill Maher"的節目上宣布了這個好消息,並明確表示,將競選民主黨2024年總統大選提名。
大眾會對被冤枉的人多有一份同情,民主黨內那些受到本黨極左派影響而催促他辭職的人,會為自己當初的魯莽而有負罪感,這些都對Andrew Cuomo有利 .
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對民主黨內的極左派危害的論述,我在拜登剛上任時寫過幾篇博文。一群不知節製的"革命者", deny a good thing only because it is not perfect (因為不完美而拒絕一件好事), 最終導致革命徹底失敗. 一幫找不到北的 suckers.
新林院 : 奧巴馬說過一句流傳很廣的話:“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.
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He said that.
But it took him 6 years to just understand that China is not a country that he could reason with, while in fewer than 3 years, Biden has taught Xi jinping more lessons than he could have ever caught up with learning.
And at the most terrible time claiming the moral equivalence between State of Israel and Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group, the former president Obama has undercut the sitting President Biden's efforts to manage a dangerous war that may easily spill over to different countries in the Middle East, which is truly a fuck-up.
他(奧巴馬)說過此話。
奧巴馬花了6年的時間才弄懂,中國不是一個可以與之講理的國家;而拜登在不到三年的時間裏,給習近平上的課,多得讓習近平無法跟上趟學明白。
麵對一場很容易擴大到中東其它國家的戰爭,在最糟糕的時間把以色列國與巴勒斯坦恐怖組織哈馬斯在道德上相提並論,"前總統奧巴馬"這麽做削弱了"現任總統拜登"管控這場危險戰爭的努力, 這才是真正的 fuck-up.
ShalakoW 發表評論於
風中的葦絮 : 請預測一下誰是下一任美國總統哈哈!
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紐約州前州長 Andrew Cuomo.
新林院 發表評論於
【無論是國內還是國際,拜登第一任內的成j就都是出類拔萃的,對美國/世界的短期和長期的影響,超過奧巴馬。】
奧巴馬說過一句流傳很廣的話:“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.”